Unfortunately it wasn't as hype as the 4th of July in 'MERICA but we got to party at the mission office with President and sister low, the office elders, a few of the other SMS's, and aps. so that was a blast. president made some amazing homemade ice cream and man it was good. just drench it in some chocolat favoris and bam you're eating some of heavenly father's dessert. and speaking of heavens food, if you're ever in the area, there is this incredible, outstanding, (honestly trying to describe it is a waste of time because no words can describe how good it is) portuguese grill called Viana. and it's my favorite food. period. like you thought my dad's dutch oven was good. well you'll have to try this and then decide. so that's kinda a side note sorry haha
Plus transfers and I got to see Sister Mavy! From the OG district and now the last of the OG district is myself and elder Madsen.
This week was super busy and we are going to get a lot better at planning, just because we have got to balance a facebook page (being the primary source of finding at the moment, and filling the needs of the area and ward as well. and i'm glad that we have elders and sisters here because it would be rough if there was only us haha. so here are a couple things we learned! how to spend money on facebook. (we are pretty much expected to drop 677$ every month on the page) and to encourage missionaries to make some content with advertising! both of which have been working out for the most part, but there have been some late nights where we didn't get to the apartment on time... but hey. Repentance. also with the process of learning how to spend money was a training at the mission office and any time we get to go to the mission office is great. although we forgot to get some chocolat Favoris so that was a bummer.
Also since it was the end of the transfer, I had a handful of procrastinated car and apartment inspections to do which I've almost completed haha.
Another thing that we have almost completed is setting up our instagrams and twitters. There are a lot of guidelines including but not limited to, muting everybody (that doesn't help fulfil our purpose) and unfollowing (I had a lot of people i was following that i didn't know or that i added in Maine or truro that I didn't need lol. so that is just about done and twitter will be a little longer coming on, but we'll get there!
In other news, our miracle couple is doing fantastic. We had a lesson with them the other day where we asked them the baptismal interview questions and they answered all of them! Ilgiz had a harder time, but was still able to answer them. so we just have a handful of lessons to discuss and commandments to review! and then they are all set.
we also got to do some service! and will be able to do more community service very soon! but we got to go to the bishops storehouse for an hour (we got to cycle missionaries so others could have some fun too) so we got to serve with the mandarin elders Elder Wu and Zhou so it was good to get some distinct unity haha
then we had a handful of leadership and SMS meetings to make sure the mission was doing great and keeping missionaries motivated as well as to discuss and review how to keep the pages going!
then sunday came around and i was like, wait it's a special day, and then I was like ah! Elder Christensen birthday. plus the sabbath, and we had stake conference! It was pretty awesome. It is always fun to hear from president and sister Low and then some of the stake presidency. and one of the speakers spoke on racism and how we are all children of God and that was an AWESOME talk. I hear rumors on how America is kinda in a rough spot, but that's nothing that the gospel can't fix.
but it's hard for people to see that. It's honestly quite fun to put book of mormon ads on the facebook market and in groups. it's remarkable how many people take the effort to make snarky anti or false statements while scrolling in the marketplace. This time i didn't reply to very many of the comments, only the ones that were so false, that any unsuspecting viewer wouldn't get any false impressions or information so that was good. unfortunately no one wanted one, but we did get two people that wanted bibles.
but nothing that anyone can say can deter my faith in Jesus Christ, His chosen prophet Joseph Smith, and His Church that has been restored to the Earth. I know this through the feelings i get when i read the book of mormon or listen to the words of the prophets. but seeing all the hate the book of mormon gets is another testimony because it fulfils prophecy, and because of Jeffery R. Holland's talk, safety for the soul. it's unfortunate that people choose to fight against something they don't know about. but the comparison to the hate the book of mormon gets and racism is kinda neat. almost as if it's inspired by satan.
love you all! keep up your prayers and scripture study. The church is true, don't h8.
Elder Dahl 2.0
LaSalle, Montréal
Canada
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Viana
Transfer squad
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